My Quilty Bucket List

During the month of March, The Tilted Quilt has been hosting the Quilty Bucket List, which is exactly what it sounds like, the quilts that you would want to make in your lifetime.  You know, those quilts that you pin on Pinterest and favorite on Flickr and say, "One day I will make that!"  Well here is my list!  I went through my pins and favorites and compiled a list (in order of to do) of those amazing quilts that I want to make in my lifetime!  So join me as I list some amazing quilts and if you click on the photo it will take you to the image source, which in most cases is a blog post about the quilt and maybe even a tutorial of how to make the quilt itself!

Marcelle Medallion by Flying Blind on a Rocket Cycle

1.  The Marcelle Medallion Quilt from the book, Liberty Love by Alexia Marcelle Abegg.  I've been in love with this quilt since I first saw it, why I haven't already started this one is beyond me, but I think I am just scared I will choose the wrong fabrics.  I will make this quilt!  There have been many versions of this quilt made already by many others, but I have to say that Hadley's version is my favorite, she nailed it!

Reflection by She Can Quilt

2.  A Blended Scraps Quilt.  Not that long ago, maybe a month or two at most, Leanne blogged about the above quilt and I fell head over heels in love with it!  Thankfully for me she just posted the tutorial for Reflection so I can shamelessly copy her version, which I plan to do.  There is something about this one that is just so beautiful, great use of color and value, the whole nine yards.

Funky Garden by Lotje Blogs

3.  A Sampler Quilt.  The above is the perfect example of what I am talking about, a quilt that takes a ton of different blocks and fits them all together in one super busy, fun and energetic quilt.  I took The Penny Sampler Class by Stitched in Color and plan to combine those blocks with a ton of others to create the perfect sampler quilt.

Growing Garden by Sewing Under Rainbow

4.  A planned kaleidoscope quilt.  In a way sort of like the One Block Wonder Quilt, but instead of just randomly cutting the triangles, you purposely cut them to make very distinct shapes, colors and patterns.  The example above is just so beautiful, I mean how could you not want to make this.  Oh and be it that I love triangle quilts, this one is right up my alley.

Native Quilt by Quilts by Emily

5.  An improv quilt.  I am going to call this one improv in that I want to make a quilt that starts with a few blocks and then is just randomly built upon until it is done.  No real plan, no real structure, something that is totally out of my comfort zone.  The quilt above is exactly what I would like to create, a lot of low volume dead space, a few planned blocks, a one of a kind quilt.

The Haphazard Quilt by My Poppet

6.  A modern scrappy crosses quilt.  I had pinned a TON of cross quilts, way more than I ever realized, so I went through, picked my favorite image (above) and want to use components of this quilt to create a scrappy cross quilt.  There is just something so simplistic about the block itself that lends to so many possibilities.

Garden Quilt by During Quiet Time

7.  An individual block paper pieced pattern quilt.  There are so many out there that I love, The Forest QAL, Sew Out Loud QAL, and pretty much all of the ones by Quiet Play and During Quiet Time.  The hard part for me will be choosing which one, heck I spent an hour trying to decide which one I wanted to feature as the photo above.  Whew, maybe it is a good thing it is last on my list, I need more time to decide!

Well that is it, I am making myself stop at seven, which is pretty funny since originally I thought my list would only include three.  So there it is, my quilty bucket list.  You can still link up your list over at The Tilted Quilt, and you can stop by and read many others bucket lists also, and what is so neat to me is how varied these lists really are, so go on over and take a look!